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gerogie2

(450 posts) Tue Mar 3, 2015, 08:43 PM Mar 2015

If I forged documents I would be a convicted criminal....

but bank employees and chief executives just a pay "settlement" and walk free.

http://www.nationalmortgagenews.com/news/distressed/jpm-to-pay-50m-settlement-for-robo-signing-other-bankruptcy-fouls-1045771-1.html

JPMorgan Chase has agreed to a $50.4 million settlement with the Justice Department for robo-signing documents sent to homeowners in bankruptcy and for related abuses.

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If I forged documents I would be a convicted criminal.... (Original Post) gerogie2 Mar 2015 OP

If you can afford to purchase a robo signer and do it millions of times it is just a civil offence. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #1

and that's nothing to them marym625 Mar 2015 #2

evidently you have no friends in congress or the oval office nt msongs Mar 2015 #3

But if your boss was a member of the president's golf foursome... Doctor_J Mar 2015 #4

Corporations are people too, my friend... Fumesucker Mar 2015 #5

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

1. If you can afford to purchase a robo signer and do it millions of times it is just a civil offence.

Reply to gerogie2 (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2015, 08:54 PM

Mar 2015

The common thread to all crimes gone unpunished is the insult to any sense of justice.

marym625

(17,997 posts)

2. and that's nothing to them

Reply to gerogie2 (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2015, 09:00 PM

Mar 2015

They put the money aside to pay fines for wrongdoing.

msongs

(73,003 posts)

3. evidently you have no friends in congress or the oval office nt

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Tue Mar 3, 2015, 09:17 PM

Mar 2015

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)

4. But if your boss was a member of the president's golf foursome...

Reply to gerogie2 (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2015, 10:27 PM

Mar 2015

laws are for little people

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)

5. Corporations are people too, my friend...

Reply to gerogie2 (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2015, 10:29 PM

Mar 2015

Very, very special people who have very, very special rules for them.

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